@javier and DSM:

Silly me :)  But of course you are right about that.  It's just a
random number, anyway, plucked from the other implementation.

> I guess discussion should take place on the ticket, but, just for the
> record: It might be worth while to use an annotated version of the
> cython code (the notebook provides it); one finds that most lines of
> code have a big overhead over C.

Yes, I am aware of that; but in this case it was nearly all yellow :)
which is why I didn't want to just add cdef's all over the place willy-
nilly.

> Apart from that, using %prun on the command line reveals that most
> computation time is spent on *algebraic* numbers and *interval*
> fields. That's surprising, because the code does not mentions any of
> "interval", "qqbar" etc. So, perhaps there is a rogue coercion
> happening behind the scenes.
>

Discussion continuing on the ticket - incidentally, Simon already
provided a ton of help on this there, let's hear it for the speed of
open source!  (When it wants to be speedy.)

- kcrisman

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